The Presence of Cough and Tuberculosis: Active Case Finding Outcomes in the Philippines

Table 3

Factors associated with successful attendance at a Rural Health Unit (Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) generalized linear mixed-model).

Outcome: Attended RHU	Posterior mean (95% CI)	Odds Ratio (95% CI)	p-value
Fixed
(Intercept)	0.16 (0.08, 0.22)	1.17 (1.08, 1.25)	<0.001
Cough/Wheezing of 2 weeks or more	0.08 (0.01, 0.14)	1.09 (1.01, 1.15)	0.01
Unexplained fever of 2 weeks or more	0.01 (-0.10, 0.11)	1.01 (0.91, 1.12)	0.78
Significant and unintentional weight loss	0.03 (-0.06, 0.12)	1.03 (0.94, 1.12)	0.55
Fatigue, lethargy, general malaise	0.05 (-0.06, 0.18)	1.06 (0.94, 1.20)	0.40
Failure to respond to 2 weeks of appropriate antibiotic therapy	0.14 (-0.05, 0.32)	1.14 (0.95, 1.37)	0.15
Failure to regain previous state of health 2 weeks after viral infection	-0.22 (-0.43, -0.03)	0.80 (0.65, 0.97)	0.03
Random
(community)	0.05 (0.01,0.11)
(base)	0.03 (0.02, 0.04)
Deviance (DIC)			1278.30